The previous Miss Black Capital City USA, Areial is an assiduous scholar and absorbing storyteller focused on community advocacy, she has served as president of the Pan-African Student Alliance, on the advisory board for The Lighthouse Black Girl Projects, a member of Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Inc., a reporter with The Purple and White campus newspaper, a member of the Millsaps Singers and part of the Model United Nations Association.

Ar is also a member of Omicron Delta Kappa Honors Society, an Arts Scholar in creative writing and music and a Kenan Scholar. As a first-year class senator and campus events chair for the Student Body Association, she was elected on “a commitment to bring prosperity, renovation, opportunity, motivation, inclusion, solidarity and excellence.”